From: Dan Nelson
Date: September 28 2007 9:19pm
Subject: Re: MySQL 5.1.21 won't build on OpenBSD unless...
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In the last episode (Sep 28), Dan Nelson said:
> In the last episode (Sep 27), Jake Conk said:
> > Not sure if this is known or not but I just wanted to let you guys
> > know that MySQL 5.1.21 fails the make. I've never had this problem on
> > other versions of mysql. It looks like GNU make worked all the way
> > through but why won't regular make work anymore?
>
> You didn't give much useful information in your message (not even a
> line number!), but I bet I found the problem.
>
> Lines 149 and 150 of Makefile.am have spaces instead of tabs as
> indentation characters. Even the documentation for GNU make says that
> "A tab character must come at the beginning of every command line to
> distinguish command lines from other lines in the makefile.", so it
> really should have failed too. Fix those two lines before running
> ./configure and your build should run okay.
You may also need to fix Makefile.in if you don't want to rerun
automake...
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Dan Nelson
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